Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Ground Assault Badge, By A.g.m.u.k. Archive Footnote: The Order of Military

Footnote: The Order of Military Merit was instituted on August 3

containing 271 pages with many coloured plates

surrounded by linden leaves on a hollow background

Weller was piloting an RE8 (A/4220) over Belgium on September 16

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Ground Assault Badge, By A.g.m.u.k. Archive Footnote: The Order of Military(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire